---
name: "Text::Bidi::Array::Long"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtext-bidi-perl"
version: "2.18-1+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Text::Bidi::Array::Long"
---

# Text::Bidi::Array::Long(3pm)

Dual-life long arrays

## NAME

Text::Bidi::Array::Long - Dual-life long arrays

## VERSION

version 2.18

## SYNOPSIS

```
    use Text::Bidi::Array::Long;
    my $a = new Text::Bidi::Array::Long "abc";
    say $a->[0]; # says 6513249 (possibly)
    say $a->[1]; # says 0
    say $$a; # says abc
    say "$a"; # also says abc
```

## DESCRIPTION

This is an derived class of Text::Bidi::Array designed to hold `"long"`  arrays. See Text::Bidi::Array for details on usage of this class. Each  element of the array representation corresponds to 4 octets in the string  representation. The 4 octets are packed in the endianness of the native  machine.

## AUTHOR

Moshe Kamensky \<kamensky@cpan.org\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Moshe Kamensky.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.